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Monday mornings are for posting nine-month-old videos that most people haven’t seen before but for which one person will loudly point out that he knew about it aaaaaages ago. This time it’s a fantastic interview with a few members of the team at CCP, talking about how Eve Online is inspired by Iceland – the country in which the company began. The similarities drawn between Iceland’s extraordinary and dangerous scenery, and Eve’s stretches of space, are very interesting. It left me wondering how many other developers can speak so eloquently about their geographical inspirations, and determined to find out the next time I interview anyone. This is part of a series of videos created by the Icelandic tourist board – Inspired By Iceland – to promote their phenomenally expensive/beautiful country to the rest of the jealous world. A campaign which also includes excellent dancing, so that’s below too.

Also Icelandic accents are best. Here’s someone singing in one, while people dance. I cannot connect this to videogames. (Be warned, it does contain a slightly nude lady and man):

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Amazing country. Main industries are fish, geothermal energy, and CCP. There are more players in EVE than the population of Iceland, and it was annexed by the US during WWII, just because it was in the way. Incredibly weird, but amazing :P

Yes we cuddle of lot in our giant igloos to keep warm, and our main food source are the giant monster ice truck which we also hunt for pleasure.

We were never annexed by the US, it was a military occupation which we didn’t care diddly squat about, as they replaced the British army, and after they left they kept operating a base here in return for financial aid that revitalized the economy here.

Hitler had strategic interest in Iceland and apparently had actual plans to invade, but didn’t because of the occupation here.

The suicide rate isn’t exceptionally high or anything, though people here chunks down happy pills like they are getting paid for it, probably has to do something with those long winter nights

“I think how eve is constantly bringing out new patches is not unlike volcanos bringing out lava”. OK this is the point where he might be reaching a little. The woman from the Icelandic Tourism Bureau is just out of shot, with a sack of money, biting her nails and wondering how far to push it before it becomes embarassingly obvious…. I mean look, the guy is trying not to laugh. What a tinker.

Looks good, but is not Japan. Japan by now would have made a 1:1 scale version of one of the Titans.
Is hard to be a awesome country, wen you have countries like Japan, Brazil, Germany, UK, Ukrania, Italia,… Is like theres a international competition to be the most awesome country, and the top 6 countries are always the same.
Maybe the iceland military can conquer the north pole. And claim ownership of all the sweet water there. Some arguee that after oil, sweet water will be the new oil. You can live 25 days withouth eating anything, but you will not last that long withouth drinking.
“We own all the potable water and a enormeous reserve of Deuterium, bitches”.
Also, with clean water comes things like Chips factories. Chips need to use clean water.

That song is awesome. I’ve discovered a cool new artist. But it’s been stuck in my head ever since i watched that video yesterday.
Also, turns out she did Gollum’s Song – i always thought that was Bjorck.